辜鸿铭是中国近代史上一位具有典型意义的文化保守主义者,他“精通西学却极端保守”,一生特立独行,被称“怪杰”。本文试图阐述在其所处的特定历史时代,他的文化保守主义充满悲剧色彩的人性与时代成因,以期能从其思想中提取具有时代价值的文化资源,对今天的现代化中国有所启示。 Gu Hongming is a typical cultural conservatism in the modern history of China. He is “extremely conservative in his studies of Western learning,” and has long been a member of the “geek” group. This paper attempts to elaborate on the human nature and the causes of the times of his cultural conservatism in a particular historical era in which he lives, in order to extract the cultural resources with the times value from his thoughts and give some inspiration to today’s modern China.